Job 37

¹²⁰My flesh trembles in awe of You; I stand in fear of Your judgments.

¹⁶I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.

²Suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, rolled away the stone, and sat on it.

³His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.

²⁹Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.

¹⁴fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.

⁶When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.

⁵God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.

³³The thunder declares His presence; even the cattle regard the rising storm.

³The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the Lord is heard over many waters.

⁴The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is majestic.

⁷At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—

¹Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

¹⁶On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

¹⁷Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

¹³that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

²⁷For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

¹²He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

⁴His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.

¹³Your way, O God, is holy. What god is so great as our God?

¹⁹Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.

³The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the Lord is heard over many waters.

⁴The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is majestic.

³³to Him who rides upon the highest heavens of old; behold, His mighty voice resounds.

⁷You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

⁸At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

²⁷For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

²⁸which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

²⁶“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.

⁹the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

³³O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

¹⁰He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.

²⁸Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.

¹¹He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.

²⁶Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.

²²Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

²⁷For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

¹³Therefore this is what the Lord God says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.

¹⁶He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes;

¹⁷He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?

⁹So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, trembling regarding this matter and because of the heavy rain.

⁶He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The Lord is His name.

²Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them.

²⁷Let them know that this is Your hand, that You, O Lord, have done it.

⁷He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.

⁹Then all mankind will fear and proclaim the work of God; so they will ponder what He has done.

¹²At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the Lord and fail to see the work of His hands.

¹⁴What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

²²The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.

⁴⁰when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?

⁹He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

¹This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.

³laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

¹Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

¹⁴Then the Lord will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord God will sound the ram’s horn and advance in the whirlwinds of the south.

²⁹From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

³⁰when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

¹⁶He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes;

¹⁷He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?

⁴⁷He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

²⁷For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

²⁸which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

⁵While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”

⁴For this is what the Lord has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

³²He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.

⁸lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,

²⁴How many are Your works, O Lord! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

¹⁷Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.

¹⁸Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.

²³Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

⁷“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

⁶These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.

⁴⁵Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.

²⁶to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,

²⁷to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

¹⁸So Samuel called to the Lord, and on that day the Lord sent thunder and rain. As a result, all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

¹⁹They pleaded with Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God for your servants so that we will not die! For we have added to all our sins the evil of asking for a king.”

³¹For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.

¹⁰And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

³⁷Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

³⁸when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?

²Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them.

¹³But Moses told the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the Lord’s salvation, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again.

¹⁰All You have made will give You thanks, O Lord, and Your saints will bless You.

¹¹They will tell of the glory of Your kingdom and speak of Your might,

²⁰But the Lord is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.

⁵the glorious splendor of Your majesty. And I will meditate on Your wondrous works.

⁶They will proclaim the power of Your awesome deeds, and I will declare Your greatness.

²⁴Remember to magnify His work, which men have praised in song.

³⁰See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.

³¹For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.

¹¹He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

²⁶Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

⁴Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

⁵Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

⁹⁰Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures.

⁹¹Your ordinances stand to this day, for all things are servants to You.

²⁴For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

²⁵When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,

⁴For truly my words are free of falsehood; one perfect in knowledge is with you.

¹⁹The Lord founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding.

²⁰By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.

¹²The Lord made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

¹³When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

²⁹Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?

²²He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

²He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

³laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

¹⁸He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.

⁵⁵And when the south wind blows, you say, ‘It will be hot,’ and it is.

¹⁷but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.

³¹Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

²⁴Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

²He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

²²He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

⁸Next he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

¹Hallelujah! Praise God in His sanctuary. Praise Him in His mighty heavens.

⁸He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

⁹He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

¹⁶When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight

¹⁷until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.

²Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.

³I have not learned wisdom, and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.

⁶Hear now my argument, and listen to the plea of my lips.

²“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

¹²Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

³Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.

³⁶But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.

³⁷For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

⁷Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

⁸They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

³For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my words have been rash.

⁴Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O Lord.

²⁵Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

⁹He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.

³²He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.

¹Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty.

²⁵to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority through Jesus Christ our Lord before all time, and now, and for all eternity. Amen.

²⁹“For our God is a consuming fire.”

³God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.

⁴His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.

³The Lord is slow to anger and great in power; the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

²³As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

³³O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

¹⁶He alone is immortal and dwells in unapproachable light. No one has ever seen Him, nor can anyone see Him. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

⁵Indeed, God is mighty, but He despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.

⁴The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob.

³²Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

³³For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.

⁴God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?

²⁸Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

²⁶Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.

¹³He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

²⁵At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.

²⁶Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.

⁴Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

²¹Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.